NOTES: Web Application Development Sucks (or at least frustrating)
I have been wanting to write this for a while, I believe ever since I started web development more than 15 years ago. Web Application Development is pretty frustrating mostly because of issues with the foundation technologies, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Alone, they are pretty harmless and quite useful but when mixed together they seemed to step over their intended roles (CSS is pretty useless in a self-contained environment). The original intent of websites seemed to involve easily publishing text documents so that others could view information online. The documents also would have functionality to link to other documents. There you have a web of documents. The web of the mid-nineties was functional and didn't seem so bad. In 2011 so many features have been piled on top of past technology and now we are just left with this big pile of mud. Most content online is for presenting text information, like news reports or stock quotes, business profiles. But now businesses are put...
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